Ma Farmer craves sweet potato pie but needs help to harvest a homegrown sweet potato--in this version of the Russian folktale, The Giant Turnip. Includes recipe and directions to make sweet potato pie.

When one after another family member goes the store for baking soda and never returns, the pet squirrel decides to investigate in this retelling of a traditional Appalachian tale. Includes a recipe for soda biscuits.

When the Little Read Hen, who loves to read and write, asks Dog, Cat, and Pig to help her create a story, they decline, so she researches, outlines, drafts, edits, and proofs the story by herself.

An adaptation of the traditional tale of Cinderella with animals rather than humans as characters.

This take on The House That Jack Built features a mouse, elf, reindeer, and much more. Young readers can get in on the act thanks to sound prompts such as "squeak," "stomp," and "jingle".